What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

[Mike H]

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[Cressy Snr]

The Beatles.










White Album.

Haven't heard this for 44 years since I borrowed it off a mate, because there was no way I could have afforded it as it had taken me six months to save up for "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

Got it as part of the D'Agostini Beatles on vinyl collection, on two 180g records, plus the four photos and giant poster sized lyric sheet that came with the original 1968 release.
What a great album. Even the controversial Revolution No 9.

[Cressy Snr]

Sophisticated Lady - Ben Webster With Strings, on mono vinyl,
whilst the dog sleeps peacefully next to me on the sofa.

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[cressy]

Piced up a copy of the London philharmonic orchestra doing star wars and 2001 on vinyl.

John Williams is a ruddy genius. Must get the jurassic Park soundtrack, best film ever made imo

[IslandPink]

How did he get on with Ligeti's stuff ?

[Dave the bass]

How did he get on with Ligeti's stuff ?

What's his taste in Itailian food got to do with it?! You mad or summat?

[IslandPink]

Dave, please .. don't spoil the Atmospheres, now !

[andrew Ivimey]

Electric Ladyland. All along... 'll be up soon.

[IslandPink]

Meanwhile... John Renbourn 'Collected' on CD.

[Cressy Snr]

OK so we've been having a bit of good-natured banter about "specialist" music.

Well jazz and rock have plenty of specialist music to wake jaded listeners out of their easy listening slumbers, but I've just listened to a Graham Central Station album I bought on import in 1979. The album in question is "Now Do U Wanna Dance?

Now on the front cover, there is a cartoon of Larry Graham conducting the band on stage in a disco complete with Soul Train dancers, and the rear has real photographs of the band members boogying down wearing flares and glittery shirts in a disco complete with mirror balls and all the trimmings. So being seriously into disco and soul back then I judged the record by its cover and bought it.

Alas I wasn't old enough to appreciate the fuzz laden throbbing funk that made up the tracks on this LP and it has languished in a forgotten corner of my collection for almost 40 years, until a couple of days ago when I found it and tried again, only this time, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

So the last track on side one, "Earthquake" I present for all you "specialists"



Tremendous fun, total bad ass bass playing from Larry Graham and the last few minutes get very specialist in the grand tradition. And FFS watch your speakers if you play it loud (which you absolutely should)

[IslandPink]

I'll get onto that soon Dave, just been knocked sideways by this track I'd forgotten about for years :

[Dave the bass]

Gong-tinged instrumentalism's.

[IslandPink]

Re. Earthquake, Steve : I shall be very disappointed if I get to hear that this track was not played at the forthcoming Owston .

[Cressy Snr]

Re. Earthquake, Steve : I shall be very disappointed if I get to hear that this track was not played at the forthcoming Owston .

Yes...It's a beast isn't it. The perfect track for Chris's PA system and subs, Nick's Mosfets or Steve's baffles, but I'd be very wary of using any low power SET or 300B OTL. Makes The Prodigy sound like chamber music.

[IslandPink]

There's a bit of that track that sounds just like Roy Harper's 'Burn the World' which was a notorious speaker-breaker.